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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH VALENTINER OF LEIPSIG, GERMANY.

PROCESS OF MAKING ACETOPHENONPHENETIDIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,863, dated April 21, 1896.

Application filed October 25, 1896. Serial No. 566,903. (N specimens-J To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH VALEN- TINER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Leipsic, Plagwitz, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and usef ul Improvements in Processes for the Production of Acetophenonphenetidin; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

To carry my process into effect, a mixture of acetophenon and paraphenetidin in the proportions of their molecular weights is heated in a reflex cooler or other means for withdrawing water. Upon cooling the product of the reaction congeals in the form of crystals and the acetophenonphenetidin can be purified by dissolving in alcohol and recrystallizing. The reaction is as follows:

com 0 II +o H coon H or c H B a .V\NH2 u ais- 2 u 4\ /CH3 The process of producing acetophenonphenetidin which consists in heating together acetophenon and paraphenetidin, substantially as described.

I11 witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

FRIEDRICH VALENTINER.

Witnesses WILIIELM SOI-IWICTI-IAL, W. HAUr'r. 

